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Spring Ford Country Club
Course Information
Club Type:
Private
Founded:
1924
Architect:
J. Franklin Meehan
General Information
Address:
48 Country Club Rd.
Royersford, PA 19468
Phone:
(610) 948-0580
Fax:
(610) 948-4468
Website:
www.springfordcc.org
Email:
rich@springfordcc.org
Club Contacts
Golf Professional:
Rich Steinmetz
(610) 948-8770
General Manager:
Ira Berkowitz
(610) 948-0580
Superintendent:
Mark Rubbo
(610) 948-6615
Club Events
2021
Apr 29
GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifier
2020
Aug 18
GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifying
2019
Apr 2
GAP Winter Series Event - 4
2019
Aug 1
GAP Senior Four-Ball Stroke Play
2017
May 4
GAP Francis B. Warner Cup (Gross)
2017
Jun 19
GAP Junior Boys’ Championship
2016
Jun 2
GAP Father & Son (Middle)
2015
Jun 4
GAP Tee it Forward - Spring Net Championship
2014
May 27
GAP Francis B. Warner Cup - Net
2013
Apr 2
GAP Winter Series Event - Spring Ford Country Club
2013
Sep 19
GAP Marston Cup
2012
Jul 12
GAP Senior Four-Man Team
2011
Aug 25
GAP Four-Ball Stroke Play Championship
2010
Sep 2
GAP Senior 27-Hole Challenge
2009
May 6
GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifier
2008
Jun 23
GAP Open Championship Qualifier
2007
Sep 27
GAP Volunteers Day
2005
May 5
GAP Francis B. Warner Cup
2003
Aug 14
GAP Patterson Cup
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts: [
Mens
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Womens
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RED TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.5
126
33.6
121
67.1
124
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
410
353
313
120
423
273
153
297
429
2771
324
295
295
292
133
424
171
325
391
2650
5421
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
PIF TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
30.5
105
31.3
108
61.8
107
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
273
250
225
115
345
200
75
240
310
2033
215
253
243
229
115
350
160
262
340
2167
4200
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.3
133
35.8
130
71.1
132
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
430
397
375
134
505
304
177
341
512
3175
398
332
359
345
156
487
193
393
484
3147
6322
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
BLACK TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
36.0
136
36.4
132
72.4
134
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
450
417
383
145
516
313
197
367
531
3319
408
346
378
354
164
507
208
402
511
3278
6597
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.4
130
35.0
127
69.4
129
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
414
357
335
134
445
304
177
298
512
2976
328
332
359
296
156
487
193
329
484
2964
5940
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
GOLD TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.8
127
34.1
123
67.9
125
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
5
36
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
5
36
72
Yards
414
357
335
125
445
277
154
298
433
2838
328
313
351
296
140
427
176
329
397
2757
5595
HCP
3
1
11
9
17
13
15
5
7
2
14
12
8
18
4
16
10
6
History
It was in mid-July of 1924 that a group of 11 men from the Spring City and Royersford area got together to discuss the formation of a country club to serve the two communities. They were perhaps mindful of the fact that neighboring Phoenixville had been enjoying its own club for almost 10 years. On Aug. 22, the Spring Ford Country Club was organized. Officers elected were as follows: Charles S. Wagoner, president; L.E. Johnson, vice president; W. Paul Youngblud, secretary; H. Fred Grander, treasurer. At the same time, a board of governors was elected consisting of the following members: Dr. Joseph A. Buckwalter, A.L. Buckwalter, Dr. E.M. Vaughn, F.J. Stephenson, R.C. Jones, Paul L. Mowery, Charles P. Floyd, Morgan J. Edwards, and F.H. Deisher.
1951 photo of Spring-Ford’s clubhouse, which dates to 1928.
The next item on the agenda was finding a location for the fledgling club. A site selection committee was appointed. One month later, the committee was back with its recommendation: the Samuel Gottschall Farm, along Reifsnyder Road in Limerick Township, near Royersford. It consisted of 114 acres of attractively rolling land with a creek winding through much of it. The club promptly acquired the property, then retained J. Franklin Meehan, architect of North Hills and Ashbourne, to design the course. Clarence Wood, with 14 years’ experience at Whitemarsh Valley, was hired as head groundskeeper. The farmhouse was pressed into service as a clubhouse to accommodate the 53 original members, but plans to enlarge and remodel the structure were quickly developed and that project given the go-ahead.
Although Meehan’s plan called for 18 holes, only nine were built at that time. Total yardage was 3,430, with a par of 37. It would be a full 30 years before the second nine was added, in 1957, giving Spring-Ford a course which, from the back tees, measures 6,742 yards, has a 72.5 course rating and a Slope of 137, among the half-dozen highest in the district.
It was on Saturday, May 8, 1925, at 1:30 p.m. that Spring-Ford Country Club officially opened its nine-hole course, using temporary greens. President Wagoner struck the first ball as he, A.L. Buckwalter, R.C. Jones, and Chester Bush teed off in the first official foursome. Some five weeks later, with the club not quite in a position to employ its own professional, arrangements were made for Mr. Thompson, professional at Plymouth Country Club, to come to SpringFord on Mondays and Thursdays from 4 to 8 p.m. in order to give lessons.
The club’s first competition—unofficial because of the temporary greens—was a low net tournament for all members on August 22, 1925. The winner and score are not a matter of record, but first prize is: a box of eight U.S. Royal golf balls. The first official competition was conducted eight months later, on May 28, 1926. The entire membership, now up to 104, took part in what was designated a "Mashie-Niblick Tournament." Contestants were permitted to use only a 7-iron and a putter.
Just about a year and a half later, on November 8,1927, the clubhouse all but burned to the ground. Five weeks after that, a second fire destroyed the shed that housed the maintenance equipment. The members took both blows in stride, and the club soon voted to build a new clubhouse. The handsome structure, set imposingly on the hill north of the 9th fairway, opened amid jubilation on New Year’s Eve, 1928. The Depression years, which lay immediately ahead, brought further adversity, but the Spring-Ford membership, nothing if not resilient, would weather these troubles as well and continue to take pleasure in their club and its course.
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